My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.